CVE-2013-1675 on CISA KEV

Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.6 do not properly initialize data structures for the nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mPreviousScale and nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mNewScale functions, which allows remote atta

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.6 do not properly initialize data structures for the nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mPreviousScale and nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mNewScale functions, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web site.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• www.debian.org — http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2699
• www.mandriva.com — http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:165
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00010.html
• bugzilla.mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866825
• www.ubuntu.com — http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1823-1
• rhn.redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0821.html
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00006.html
• www.mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-47.html
• oval.cisecurity.org — https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3…
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00011.html
• rhn.redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0820.html
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00012.html
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00008.html
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59858
• www.ubuntu.com — http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1822-1

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

06Detection

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